Bodies of two children found

Story: George Ernest Asare, Kumasi
07/03/08
Residents of Old Tafo in Kumasi woke up in the morning of Wednesday to find the bodies of two children suspected to have been murdered and dumped on a school playing field.
The children were reported missing on Tuesday and all attempts to trace them proved futile until their remains were found early in the morning.
They were identified as Fatau Issaka, three, and his cousin Kausan Alhassan, two.
Family sources said the children had gone to the Tafo Pankrono Block B Junior High School, popularly known as Famous, unaccompanied to witness the rehearsal for the March 6 march past by schoolchildren but never returned home.
The school field where the bodies were discovered was fenced and locked at the time the bodies were discovered.
Both Fatau and Kausan were foaming at the mouth when their bodies were discovered, raising suspicion of foul play.
According to the children’s parents, they got missing last Tuesday and all efforts to trace them proved futile until they got wind that their bodies had been found on the school field.
A family spokesman, Mr Hamidu Adamu, told the Daily Graphic that since the school shared a common compound with their family house, the children had been going there to play all the time.
He said on Tuesday, March 4, 2008, they had gone there as usual to witness the rehearsal for the Independence Day march past by the schoolchildren but failed to return home, compelling them to search for them throughout the day.
Mr Hamidu said when their efforts to locate the children proved futile, they made a report to the police.
According to Mr Hamidu, it was a KVIP attendant in the school who first saw the bodies when he went there perform to his duties at dawn yesterday.
He explained that the attention of the attendant was drawn to the barking of some dogs in the school and it was when he went there to find out why the dogs were barking that he found the bodies of the children.
At the time of going to press, the police had initiated investigations into the incident.